Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.

To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities.

Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.

People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.

Challenge everything for the Truth. Only those who challenge everything for the Truth are the blessed ones.

Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.

A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one.

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.

The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.

For the world to become a better place, someone has to pay a price, I think it's glorious to sacrifice for the sake of social progress and fighting injustice.